Rempstone Road Merley, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

225 addresses across 8 postcodes (BH21), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 30301024.

  • Sales: 220 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £452,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026 (-1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,400 a month.
  • Energy: 113 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 17, D: 76, E: 14, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 26 times (178 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Whites Pit, Arena Way - Solar PV Array, is 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A31, carries 30,513 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 72% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Parkstone (Dorset), about 6.6 km (4.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 56 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 20 of its 225 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Quarter Jack Surgery, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£452,500£420,000£485,000
20254£490,000£375,000£520,000
20244£470,000£357,500£540,000
20237£435,000£395,000£550,000
20229£490,000£435,000£555,000
20218£475,000£375,000£600,000
20204£417,475£377,500£492,000
20197£425,000£357,500£510,000
20188£389,500£355,000£515,000
20179£400,000£365,000£430,000
20167£359,950£330,000£430,000
20155£320,000£275,000£345,000
The latest 200 of 220 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jul 20021 BH21 1SADetached£179,000
6 Jun 20022 BH21 1SADetached£143,500
6 Jul 20183 BH21 1SADetached£409,500
11 Sep 20083 BH21 1SADetached£287,500
23 Nov 20183A BH21 1SADetached£515,000
21 Nov 20195 BH21 1SADetached£357,500
4 Aug 20175 BH21 1SADetached£581,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Sep 20095 BH21 1SADetached£280,000
29 Sep 20215A BH21 1SADetached£600,000
27 Feb 20195A BH21 1SADetached£510,000
5 Nov 20016 BH21 1SADetached£158,000
2 May 20247 BH21 1SASemi-detached£357,500
21 Apr 20219 BH21 1SADetached£375,000
16 Jun 20149 BH21 1SADetached£290,000
26 Sep 200310 BH21 1SASemi-detached£196,000
12 Aug 201012 BH21 1SADetached£257,000
7 Jun 201214 BH21 1RPDetached£385,000
26 May 200014 BH21 1RPDetached£155,000
25 Feb 202115 BH21 1SSDetached£430,000
17 Dec 199715 BH21 1SSDetached£125,000
15 Nov 201318 BH21 1RPDetached£320,000
8 Sep 202319 BH21 1SSDetached£475,000
19 Jan 202420 BH21 1RPDetached£540,000
10 May 201320 BH21 1RPDetached£300,000
16 Jan 200820 BH21 1RPDetached£322,500
12 Oct 201121 BH21 1SSDetached£301,000
20 Jul 200723 BH21 1SSDetached£275,000
15 Mar 200423 BH21 1SSDetached£235,000
6 Oct 199923 BH21 1SSDetached£114,950
5 Sep 199723 BH21 1SSDetached£82,000
22 Nov 200727 BH21 1SSDetached£325,000
14 Jun 200129 BH21 1SSDetached£164,950
2 Dec 202433 BH21 1SSDetached£515,000
12 Nov 202133 BH21 1SSDetached£480,000
8 Aug 200333 BH21 1SSDetached£223,000
20 Oct 199933 BH21 1SSDetached£124,500
19 Jun 202334 BH21 1RPDetached£435,000
14 Apr 202235 BH21 1SSDetached£435,000
11 Aug 202136 BH21 1RPDetached£477,500
23 Nov 202341 BH21 1SSDetached£430,000
29 May 199843 BH21 1SSDetached£137,000
24 Oct 199745 BH21 1SSDetached£94,000
14 Apr 200046 BH21 1RPDetached£157,000
15 Oct 201148 BH21 1RPDetached£285,000
24 May 201951 BH21 1TRDetached£425,000
29 Sep 200951 BH21 1TRDetached£280,000
2 Sep 200251 BH21 1TRDetached£212,500
6 Aug 199952 BH21 1RPDetached£126,500
27 May 201654 BH21 1RPDetached£353,000
30 Mar 201755 BH21 1TRDetached£420,000
27 May 202256 BH21 1RPDetached£525,000
13 Sep 201957 BH21 1TRDetached£400,000
5 Dec 201457 BH21 1TRDetached£325,000
25 Aug 200657 BH21 1TRDetached£252,500
18 Aug 200357 BH21 1TRDetached£245,000
22 Jul 201960 BH21 1RPDetached£440,000
8 Jun 201162 BH21 1RPDetached£285,000
21 Sep 202263 BH21 1TRDetached£450,000
11 Mar 202264 BH21 1RPDetached£527,500
15 Dec 201064 BH21 1RPDetached£272,000
10 Mar 202565 BH21 1TRDetached£375,000
4 Mar 200867 BH21 1TRDetached£310,000
7 Nov 201670 BH21 1RPDetached£410,000
8 Jan 200471 BH21 1TRDetached£226,000
9 Aug 201672 BH21 1RPDetached£337,500
6 Aug 199972 BH21 1RPDetached£136,000
28 Mar 200873 BH21 1TRSemi-detached£270,000
9 Mar 201774 BH21 1RPDetached£375,000
16 Jun 200674 BH21 1RPDetached£278,000
16 Sep 202075 BH21 1TRDetached£377,500
29 Aug 201877 BH21 1TRDetached£360,000
24 Apr 200977 BH21 1TRDetached£138,154
24 Nov 202379 BH21 1TRDetached£475,000
11 May 201879 BH21 1TRDetached£355,000
24 Jul 201579 BH21 1TRDetached£275,000
28 Jun 200281 BH21 1TRDetached£181,000
2 Jun 200388 BH21 1RPDetached£235,000
4 May 202289 BH21 1TRDetached£470,000
25 Jun 200389 BH21 1TRDetached£250,000
27 Nov 202590 BH21 1RPDetached£510,000
30 Nov 200190 BH21 1RPDetached£177,000
18 Mar 202191 BH21 1TRDetached£472,500
1 Aug 201894 BH21 1RPDetached£398,000
23 Sep 200294 BH21 1RPDetached£227,000
9 Mar 200195 BH21 1TRDetached£142,500
9 Apr 202197 BH21 1TRDetached£375,000
16 Oct 201297 BH21 1TRDetached£264,000
20 Jan 2017101 BH21 1TRDetached£426,000
17 Feb 2017102 BH21 1SXDetached£380,000
1 Sep 2004105 BH21 1TRDetached£249,950
19 Nov 1999105 BH21 1TRDetached£132,950
22 Mar 2016106 BH21 1SXDetached£367,500
28 Oct 2002106 BH21 1SXDetached£213,500
15 Aug 2014107 BH21 1TRDetached£297,000
10 Aug 2026108 BH21 1SXDetached£485,000
14 Sep 2022108 BH21 1SXDetached£490,000
3 Aug 2018110 BH21 1SXDetached£375,000
6 Mar 2020111 BH21 1TRDetached£384,950
25 Sep 2015111 BH21 1TRDetached£320,000
8 Nov 2013112 BH21 1SXDetached£342,000
25 Jul 2008114 BH21 1SXDetached£356,000
10 Jul 2017115 BH21 1TRDetached£380,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 2000115 BH21 1TRDetached£142,000
21 Aug 2003117 BH21 1TRDetached£230,000
19 Apr 2004118 BH21 1SXDetached£239,950
28 Jun 2002119 BH21 1TRDetached£215,000
20 Apr 2001119 BH21 1TRDetached£162,500
9 Apr 2014120 BH21 1SXDetached£336,000
20 Oct 2017122 BH21 1SXDetached£380,000
30 Jun 2017124 BH21 1SXDetached£365,000
29 Sep 2010125 BH21 1TRDetached£259,000
4 Jan 2001125 BH21 1TRDetached£155,750
13 Apr 2017127 BH21 1TRDetached£400,000
24 Sep 2010127 BH21 1TRDetached£250,000
4 Nov 2003127 BH21 1TRDetached£243,000
17 Apr 2018129 BH21 1TRDetached£390,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Oct 2007129 BH21 1TRDetached£330,000
16 Aug 1999132 BH21 1SXDetached£131,000
22 Nov 2018134 BH21 1SXDetached£377,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 1998134 BH21 1SXDetached£125,000
13 Dec 2007138 BH21 1SXDetached£320,000
12 Dec 2008142 BH21 1SXDetached£220,000
5 Nov 2004142 BH21 1SXDetached£245,000
15 Jan 2004142 BH21 1SXDetached£232,500
21 Oct 2009144 BH21 1SXDetached£286,000
1 Jun 2004144 BH21 1SXDetached£260,000
19 Sep 2023154 BH21 1SXDetached£550,000
26 Nov 2010154 BH21 1SXDetached£312,500
19 Apr 2002154 BH21 1SXDetached£216,000
29 Aug 2006160 BH21 1SXDetached£292,500
21 Aug 1998160 BH21 1SXDetached£123,000
6 Apr 2001162 BH21 1SXDetached£155,000
22 Jun 1999164 BH21 1SXDetached£129,000
15 Sep 2023170 BH21 1SXDetached£395,000
17 Aug 2007170 BH21 1SXDetached£281,250
15 May 2015174 BH21 1SXDetached£345,000
30 Jan 2009174 BH21 1SXDetached£270,000
5 May 2023176 BH21 1SXDetached£410,000
14 Oct 1999180 BH21 1SXDetached£124,950
25 Sep 2002182 BH21 1SXDetached£187,000
27 Aug 1999182 BH21 1SXDetached£123,500
24 Sep 1998186 BH21 1SYDetached£117,000
7 Dec 2012188 BH21 1SYDetached£270,500
22 Jul 2022194 BH21 1SYDetached£440,000
9 Oct 2020196 BH21 1SYDetached£492,000
4 Aug 2017196 BH21 1SYDetached£430,000
5 May 2000198 BH21 1SYDetached£183,000
8 May 1998200 BH21 1SYDetached£130,000
7 Mar 2025202 BH21 1SYDetached£470,000
29 Apr 2019204 BH21 1SYDetached£427,500
10 Oct 2018208 BH21 1SYDetached£406,500
14 Oct 2020210 BH21 1SYDetached£450,000
26 Aug 2016212 BH21 1SYDetached£430,000
19 Feb 2004212 BH21 1SYDetached£300,000
10 Aug 2022214 BH21 1SYDetached£555,000
24 Nov 2006214 BH21 1SYDetached£295,000
25 Jan 2013216 BH21 1SYDetached£275,000
8 Jul 2013218 BH21 1SYDetached£270,000
30 Aug 2017220 BH21 1SYDetached£430,000
11 Aug 2021224 BH21 1SYDetached£520,000
17 Jan 2000228 BH21 1SYDetached£131,000
28 Jan 2026232 BH21 1SYDetached£420,000
24 Oct 2012234 BH21 1SYDetached£305,000
26 Oct 1998240 BH21 1SYDetached£141,000
11 Nov 2002242 BH21 1SYDetached£219,950
18 Aug 1998244 BH21 1SYDetached£117,000
2 Feb 2016246 BH21 1SZDetached£330,000
31 Aug 2012248 BH21 1SZDetached£288,000
18 Sep 2002248 BH21 1SZDetached£217,000
10 Jun 2010254 BH21 1SZDetached£280,000
26 Jul 2022258 BH21 1SZDetached£500,000
29 Apr 2005260 BH21 1SZDetached£310,000
19 Oct 2001260 BH21 1SZDetached£197,000
4 Aug 2000260 BH21 1SZDetached£188,000
6 Oct 2004264 BH21 1SZDetached£234,950
24 Mar 2006268 BH21 1SZDetached£280,000
28 Jan 2000268 BH21 1SZDetached£154,950
13 Aug 2010274 BH21 1SZDetached£275,000
30 Nov 1999276 BH21 1SZDetached£140,000
10 Dec 2025278 BH21 1SZDetached£520,000
4 Dec 1998278 BH21 1SZDetached£135,000
15 Dec 2006280 BH21 1SZSemi-detached£280,000
6 Oct 1999280 BH21 1SZSemi-detached£131,000
4 Apr 2024282 BH21 1SZDetached£425,000
14 Oct 1999284 BH21 1SZDetached£131,000
3 Dec 2018286 BH21 1SZDetached£381,000
20 Nov 2015286 BH21 1SZDetached£345,000
28 Feb 2003286 BH21 1SZDetached£217,500
30 Mar 2001290 BH21 1SZDetached£155,000
30 Apr 1998290 BH21 1SZDetached£120,750
5 Apr 2016292 BH21 1SZDetached£359,950
25 Aug 2011292 BH21 1SZDetached£300,000
10 Jan 2014300 BH21 1SZDetached£320,000
28 Jul 2006302 BH21 1SZDetached£285,000
11 Jun 2004302 BH21 1SZDetached£237,000
6 Mar 2019304 BH21 1SZDetached£380,000
16 Dec 2009304 BH21 1SZDetached£282,000
8 Aug 2003304 BH21 1SZDetached£248,750
28 Sep 2015310 BH21 1SZDetached£300,000
16 Nov 2001310 BH21 1SZDetached£150,000

The full report lists every sale on this street, 220 in all, by house number. Get the full report

House prices and rents in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026, 1.9% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£550,618
Semi-detached£356,254
Terraced£292,487
Flat or maisonette£196,969
Bought by a first-time buyer£248,778

Private renters in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole paid £1,400 a month on average in September 2026, 2.2% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£918
Two bedrooms£1,170
Three bedrooms£1,458
Four or more bedrooms£2,083

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

113 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 115 m². Most common: House, detached (99); Bungalow, detached (14). Built: 1967-1975 (76); 1976-1982 (28); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (88); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (113 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,044 kWh of it on average in 2024, 20% more than the district's 11,716 kWh, and 3,268 kWh of electricity, 15% less than the district's 3,823 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH21 1SX442,615 kWh 4413,868 kWh
BH21 1TR422,823 kWh 4113,585 kWh
BH21 1RP392,769 kWh 4014,758 kWh
BH21 1SZ343,320 kWh 3413,454 kWh
BH21 1SY292,682 kWh 3113,481 kWh
BH21 1SS163,264 kWh 1616,025 kWh
BH21 1SA131,948 kWh 1411,843 kWh
BH21 1RY332,769 kWh 3113,013 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is BH21.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2026-27: Band D £2,436 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,624£1,894£2,165£2,436£2,977£3,518£4,059£4,871

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (47% of about 1,320 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

5 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Whites Landfill Site (Canford) Landfill Gas 6 MW Operational May 1996 1.6 km (1 mile)
Whites Pit, Arena Way - Solar PV Array Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/23/01002/F Solar farm 2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Dec 2023 1.6 km (1 mile)
Canford Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/12/01559/F Advanced Conversion Technologies 10 MW Being built Jan 2015 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Dorset Green Solar Farm Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/21/00400/F Solar farm 5 MW Operational Apr 2023 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Beacon Hill Landfill Gas 3 MW Operational Dec 2004 4.6 km (2.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026: BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 9 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD), Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 25 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 11 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 25 August 2026 to 4 September 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (standard works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 4 September 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 26 times, for 178 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib River Stour (S), River Stour.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Canford Main Pumping Station Wessex Water Trib River Stour (S) 4 13 790 m (0.5 miles)
Wimborne Water Recycling Centre Wessex Water River Stour 22 165 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 225 addresses are between 44 m and 56 m above sea level (49 m on average); the ground rises about 12 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BH21 1RP100%100%100%0%
BH21 1RY100%72%72%0%
BH21 1SA100%86%86%0%
BH21 1SS100%100%100%0%
BH21 1SX100%100%100%0%
BH21 1SY100%100%100%0%
BH21 1SZ100%100%100%0%
BH21 1TR100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsParkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–256.7 km (4.2 miles)
Hamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mimosa Avenue Merley110 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth University Talbot Heath6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Car parksCrown Mead Car Park2.3 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH9.6 km (6 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS84.7 km (53 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesThe Quarter Jack Surgery Good Feb 20262.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest South Coast Dental Specialists510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWimborne Community Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Magna Care Centre Good Jul 2024930 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationDorset Police2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM720 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,000 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fenners 2.3 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,910 m²1.7 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith House, a scheduled monument, 530 m (0.3 miles) south. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith HouseScheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) south
Two bowl barrows in Arrowsmith Coppice 200m south of Arrowsmith HouseScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Round barrow cemetery south and west of Rose Lawn Coppice, 600m south west of Higher Merley FarmScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gravel HillHill350 m south-west
Gravel Hill PlantationWood530 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Pond CoppiceWood760 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Big CovertWood790 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Merley PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
The BogWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)8.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69100
60 to 64600
55 to 591300
Under 55205225225

20 of the street's 225 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Merley First SchoolPrimary5–9690 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Broadstone Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 740 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Debi Day Care Before & After School Club BH21 1XE Out-of-school day care 30 Jun 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 3 740 m (0.5 miles)
Outdoor Adventurers BH21 1SD Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 760 m (0.5 miles)
360 Merley First BH21 1SD Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 760 m (0.5 miles)
Down in The Woods Pre-School Ltd BH21 1ST Full day care 24 Outstanding (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 910 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 131 childminders and 34 home childcarers (nannies) in Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gravel Hill (2); On or near Rempstone Road (1); On or near Mimosa Avenue (1); On or near Longespee Road (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 5 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202220
202320
202400
202521
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
11 May 2025 15:06 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Apr 2025 09:07 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A349, 30 mph Daylight
28 Nov 2023 13:00 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
1 Apr 2023 13:06 Slight 3 people A341, 30 mph Daylight
2 Sep 2022 18:40 Slight 1 person A349, 40 mph Daylight
9 May 2022 08:26 Slight 2 people A349, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A31 between LA Boundary and B3073 Canford Bottom Roundabout, with 30,513 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 470 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A349 A341 to B3073 25,956 counted 2025 4% +7% since 2015 240 m
A349 Dunyeats Rd to A341 Queen Anne Drive 29,303 estimated; counted 2024 3% -1% since 2015 360 m
A349 B3073 to A31 23,620 estimated 4% +7% since 2015 390 m
A31 LA Boundary to B3073 Canford Bottom Roundabout 30,513 estimated; counted 2024 4% +6% since 2015 470 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,243 residents in 527 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5540
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright63%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD): Utility repair and maintenance works, 9 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 19 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Longespee Road · Mimosa Avenue · Ivy Road · Delph Road · De Montfort Road · Stirling Place · Layard Drive · Merley Gardens · Montacute Way · Rosamund Avenue · Gravel Hill

All the streets in BH21 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.